Payments news stories in April continued to be dominated by Fintech and the usual Fintech companies! Fintech companies doing fintech and banks trying to be more like fintech’s. And we are perhaps seeing the real beginnings of fintech companies moving into banking. Alongside the shiny fintech stuff, there has been a good ol’ bank IT system melt down. Check out the following top payments news stories for April 2018:

Batvia – a blockchain based trade finance platform, developed by a a consortium consisting of Bank of Montreal, CaixaBank, Commerzbank, Erste Bank, IBM and UBS completes its first pilot transaction with corporate customers